40? The oldest millenials are turning 45 this year.
I won’t be able to handle the embarrassment of being where I am while being 40.
3 more months!! I’m excited! Aging is a privilege!
Reminder that your generation contains all the best and worst of humanity, like other generations, and is not a like collective.
Leading up to my recent 40th, I went on a little tour of contacting people to tie up loose ends/seek closure where it was lacking. It was really helpful, even though at least one person worried I was planning to kill myself.
Gen x’er here, weren’t y’all like starting things in 1981…wouldn’t that make you comingup on a different decade? (I’ll take my rotten tomatoes now, high velocity please)
I’m gen Z and I’m less than two years from thirty. The years do keep coming, and they do not stop.
My father referred to me as ‘almost 40’ the other day, which I deemed rude so I called him ‘almost 60’, which he also deemed rude.
My parents started referring to me as “middle-aged” when I was like 35 specifically because they knew it would drive me nuts. And with the current trajectory of American life expectancy, the math might actually bear them out.
My family lives for freaking ever i won’t “middle aged” until my 48th
Nah, man, engage your spite, live to 100, curse them as you die. I believe in you.
Oldest end of gen z, staring down the barrel of 30. Low key excited but still a lot to process lmao
I was like, why the hell am I chasing millenials
Fist time I got an AARP flyer in the mail I wanted to punch the mailman.
But your doctor warned you about overexerting yourself like that, right?
Turned 40 last week, just got mine. Definite WTF moment for me
Realistically, very little actually happens “fast” in my life. For me, things are more like the concept of punctuated equilibrium. Stretch of sameness, sudden life altering changes coming fast and heavy. Get used to the change. Stretch of sameness for another while. Sudden life altering changes coming fast and heavy again. Reduce. Reuse. Rinse. Recycle. Repeat.
Looking back, those stretches of sameness when life was relatively peaceful, calm, safe, etc tend to melt into each other, mentally compressed, then archived. Those sudden changes grow and balloon, warping my memories of the past, taking over seeming like they just kept coming. To the point where, it’s like just yesterday I was starting college.
But then on top of that, life just gets more and more complicated without even necessarily trying. Harder and harder and harder. Best of plans, greatest of hopes. Smashed to pieces. Most of it, I didn’t make complicated or intentionally bring upon myself. Much of it, in fact, was unavoidable even if it was predictable. And it keeps coming.
Where is the button in Lemmy for flagging posts as “false and misleading”?
Millennials typically are defined as being born between 1981 and 1996.
Like it or not, 1981 was 45 years ago. Modern Times (1936) is nearer in time to The Empire Strikes Back (1980) than The Empire Strikes back is to 2026.
Which makes thus false. Since millennials can already be in their 40s.
Old meme, already 40.
Brag much? Look you Mr. Maturity. I just exited my mid 30s, anow had to transition into calling myself late 30s.
Don’t worry time flies from that point on and then you die.
I be 44 this year! Just after my third lower back surgery
Damn, I’m scared to consider one.
3.months left
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